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Editorial his edition is packed with the lat- est developments in subsea tech- nology as it applies to defense,

Toffshore energy and academia, but it starts on page 8 with Rick Spinrad’s ob- servations on the scrum in Washington DC ecoSub Robotics www.marinetechnologynews.com with the arrival of Trump 2.0, speci? cally

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Kill a Thousand: The Pennies-Wise, Lives-

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Foolish Effort to Eliminate NOAA. The cuts

John C. O’Malley [email protected] at NOAA are but a microcosm of changes, and the last several administration changes have come with increasing volatility in policy

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Gregory R. Trauthwein swings across the board. Big picture, how all of these changes will cumulatively impact [email protected] your business, your research, is a chapter still to be written, but in the near term expect more volatility and uncertainty, but at the same time a renewed interest and investment in

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Kevin Hardy all matters maritime, subsea and defense.

Celia Konowe

Edward Lundquist

Speaking of defense, we again welcome the insights of David Strachan, Strikepod Sys-

David Strachan tems, for his Subsea Defense column. In this edition he focuses on modern mining of the

Production Manager world’s waterways, eschewing the popular notion of a sea ? lled with ‘spiky ball’ con? g-

Irina Vasilets [email protected] ured mines and instead looking at modern mines and deployment systems, systems that allow covert delivery from non-descript commercial vessels. Another pair of features looks

Production & Graphic Design at the U.S. Research Vessel ? eet, today and tomorrow as Bruce Appelgate spoke with

Nicole Ventimiglia [email protected]

Rhonda Moniz on the status and direction of the UNOLS ? eet, while I had a one-on-one video interview with Appelgate speci? c to the new hybrid hydrogen vessel currently under

Corporate Staff design, aiming for delivery and operation before the clock turns to 2030.

Manager, Marketing

As of this writing I and the MTR team are preparing for the biggest subsea event of the

Mark O’Malley [email protected] year on the commercial side, with the opening of yet another Ocean Business in South- ampton, UK, on the premises of the National Oceanography Centre. If you will be in

Accounting

Esther Rothenberger

Southampton and are launching a new technology, drop me an email, as the ? rst two days [email protected] of the event we’ll have the “MTR TV” video team on premises in Southampton, record-

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